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Pinball Asset Decryptor

Extract, view and change the sounds, videos, pictures and text inside a pinball machine’s software, then build a card or update the machine will take back. One app for 130+ games across eleven manufacturers, on Windows, macOS and Linux.

What you can do with it

  • Extract a game’s assets from its SD card, disk image or update file into ordinary files you can open and edit.
  • Replace sounds, videos, pictures and text, with side-by-side previews of the original and yours. Replacements are converted to whatever the game needs.
  • Build a new card image or update with your changes, or write them straight onto the SD card or SSD.
  • Share your changes as a small mod pack, or apply someone else’s.
  • Emulate the game on your PC to see and hear your changes before they go near the machine.
  • Play in Visual Pinball (preview): the Stern Spike 1 and Spike 2 and Spooky emulators can drive a Visual Pinball X table. With a preview code, the Visual Pinball tab lists the tables you downloaded from their authors and the ones out there for the other machines, patches and opens them, and gives table authors a checklist of…